"A WOMAN'S REVENGE."

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 132, 2 December 1895, Page 2

"A WOMAN'S REVENGE."

Tho last performance of " A Life of Pleasure," whioh has run so successfully during the week, was given on Saturday night, and to-night will give way -to another Bpeotaoular triumph from tho pen of Henry Pettitt, " A Woman's- Revenge." The plot deals with tho loves of Kobert Overatono and Frank Drummond for tho horoino Mary Lonsdale, an heiress. Overstone ia the lady's cou in, and according to usual dramatic proprietioH is a blackguard. Drummond, on the other hand, is a decent fellow, whioh ia rather a remarkable thing, as ho is both a stage Uwyer and a sUgo capitalist, aud this alone should render thiß charaotor particularly interesting. However, thero ia a foil in a '"bad']ot" of t lawyer named Grimwade, who ought really to have beon etruok off the rolls long ngo, and then there would have been no need to write a drama about him, aud he and Overstone, and one Mabol Wontworth, do their level bast to ruin Drummond, till Grimwade appropriately shoots Overstone, and then gets the heroine arrested for the Bhootmg. But Henry Pettitt naturally wouldn't let that Bort of thing suooeed, so he has a baud in the last act, and reverses tho position of aoouger and acoused, but not before the nudienoc has been worked up to a dreadful state of anxiety about tho poor girl.